Machine for pressing and rolling sticks of licorice.



No. 683,72lv Patented Oct. I, I901.

T. H. BAUCHLE 8:. C. A. &. A. E. SMYLIE.

MACHINE FOR PRESSING AND ROLLING STICKS 0F LIGORICE. -(Application flied Feb. 25, 1901.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet l'.

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Patented Oct. I, l90l. T. H. BAUCHLE & C. A. & A. E. SMYLIE. MACHINE FOR PRESSI'NG AND ROLLING STICKS 0F LICORICE.

Application filed Feb. 25, 1901.)

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(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS H. BAUOHLE, CHARLES A. SMYLIE, AND ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO YOUNG & SMYLIE, OF BROOK- LYN, NEW YORK.

MACHINE FOR PRES-SING AND ROLLING STICKS OF LICORICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 683,721, dated October 1, 1901.

l Application filed February 25, 1901. Serial N0. 48,644. (No model.)

To all whom, it nttty concern:

Beit known that we, THOMAS H. BAUCHLE, CHARLES A. SMYLIE,and ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE, of New York city, in the State of New York,

5 have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Pressing and Rollin g Sticks of Licorice, of which the following is a specification.

We will describe a machine embodying our o improvements and then point out the novel features in a claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view ofa machine embodying ourimprovement. Fig. 2 is aside View. Fig. 3 is '5 a central vertical section. Fig. 4. is a vertical sectional elevation in a plane at right angles to Fig. 3.

A B designate two rolls journaled in bearings comprised in a frame O. The rolls are c composed of segmental blocks a b of wood fitted together to form disks or rings arranged side by side, with the blocks of each ring staggered with reference to the blocks of the adjacent ring, all the blocks being secured together by metal cheek-pieces a 12 The blocks are shown as extending to shafts a 19 upon which the cheek-pieces a b are mounted and secured. The journals 0 of the.

lower roll A are fixed in the lower part of the frame C; but the journals of the upper roll wheel E.

B are supported in bearings 0 formed in blocks 0 which slide along inclined portions of the frame 0. Screws c engaging with tapped holes in lugs 0 projecting from the 5 inclined portion of the frame 0, serve to adjust the roll B toward and from the roll A.

Affixed to one of the journals of the roll A is a gear-wheel D, and affixed to the corresponding journal of the roll B is a gear- Intermediate of these two gearwheels is a gear-wheelF, which is mounted upon a stud f, which is clamped to a portion of the frame 0 which is concentric with the shaft of the roll A. The stud passes through the concentric slot f and is clamped by means of a nut f as shown more particularly in Fig. 4. Provision is afforded by the adjustable connection of this stud for lowering and raising the gear-wheel F, so that it shall maintain contact with the two gear-wheels D E notwithstanding adjustment of the gearwheel E with the roll B.

It will be seen that owing to the inclined portions of the frame 0 which support the upper roll B the latter is not only arranged above the roll A, but some distance to the rearward of the forward portion of said roll.

Intermediate of the two rolls are guides G, consisting severally of pieces made, preferably, of wood curved above and below to fit the peripheries of the rolls and provided with shanks extending outwardly to side pieces of the frame 0, where they are slotted and are secured by means of bolts, so as to provide for adjustment of the guides toward and from each other.

In front of the roll'A any receptacle for licorice to j be rolled is placed. We have shown one, H, of box-like form.

Rearward of the rolls we have shown a tray I for receiving the articles which have been rolled or pressed.

In the operation of the machine the lower roll A is rotated in the direction of its arrow (see Fig. 2) by means of a driven pulley P. The gear F, which meshes with the gear D of the roll A, is driven in the direction of its arrow, and the roll B is driven in the direction of its arrowv by reason of the gear E thereof being in mesh with the gear F. The roll A is moved at a faster speed than the roll B, owing to its gear D having a less number of teeth than the gears E and E, which may have the same number of teeth. Consequently there will be a feed of the material between the rolls in the direction of the arrow of the roll A.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a machine for rolling or pressing licorice, the combination of the rolls comprising the segmental wooden blocks, the frame having inclined portions, the blocks sliding on the names to this specification in the presence of inclined portions, the screws provided with two subscribing Witnesses.

handles and serving to adjust the sliding THOMAS H. BAUCHLE. blocks, gears on journals of the rolls, an in- CHARLES A. SMYLIE. termediate gear adjustable in an arc concen- ADOLPHE E. SMYLIE. trio with the lower roll and suitable guides \Vitnesses:

for the rolls, substantially as specified. l MYERS OURTIss,

M. B. ANDELFINGER.

In testimony whereof we have signed our 

